Mini and Camara top F2™ and F3™ on Friday

The opening round of the second season of the latest generation of F2™.

The grid will be shaken up, with several drivers copping a 10-spot grid penalty after stewards found that their teams had run extra sensors in a recent pre-season test in Barcelona, violating the strict testing regulations.

Jak Crawford and Kush Maini (from the DAMS Lucas Oil team), Amaury Cordeel and Alex Dunne (Rodin Motorsport), and Sami Meguetounif and Max Esterson (Trident) will all be put back on both the Feature and Sprint races, while their teams will each be fined €10,000 (A$17,500) for the breach.

In the action-packed Qualifying session, Gabriele Mini took pole for Prema Racing, a time of 1m29.286s securing the Alpine Academy Driver the best starting position.

Frenchman Victor Martins took second for ART Grand Prix ahead of Crawford, though the American will have to take that 10-place penalty. 

In F3™, the first of the championship's 10 rounds will start with Trident Motorsport locking out the top two times. Brazilian Ferrari Junior driver Rafael Camara led the way alongside Danish teammate Noah Strømsted.

French rookie Théophile Naël was third fastest, but he faces a Stewards enquiry after he left the pitlane with five minutes to go with an air blower still attached to the airbox of his Van Amersfoort Racing entry.

Santiago Ramos (VAR) and Matías Zagazeta (DAMS) will start from the front row for Saturday’s race, for which the 12 fastest drivers will have their positions reversed. It was a tough session for Aussie James Wharton, who will start from grid 22 for ART Grand Prix.

This is a crucial season for the F3™, with a new car designed and built by Dallara in Italy and a 3.4-litre V6 that, for the first time, will run on 100 percent renewable fuel.

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